Textual Developments : a Collected Essays, Volume 4 /

Twenty-eight revised and updated essays on the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, the Torah, the (proto-) Masoretic Text, the Septuagint, and the Dead Sea Scrolls originally published between 2010 and 2018 are presented in this fourth volume of the author's collected essays. These areas hav...

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Main Author: Tov, Emanuel (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Series: Vetus Testamentum, Supplements ; 181.
Novum Testamentum Supplements Online, Supplement 2019, ISBN: 9789004390867.

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Call Number: BS1136

Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Preface
  • Sources
  • Abbreviations and Sources
  • Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible
  • The Textual Base of the Biblical Quotations in Second Temple Compositions
  • Were Early Hebrew Scripture Texts Authoritative?
  • Post-Modern Textual Criticism?
  • The Origins, Development, and Characteristics of the Ancient Translations of the Hebrew Scriptures
  • Modern Editions of the Hebrew Bible
  • Electronic Scripture Editions (With an Appendix Listing Electronic Editions on the Internet [2019])
  • New Editions of the Hebrew Scriptures: A Response
  • Textual Criticism of the Torah
  • Textual History of the Torah
  • Textual Harmonization in Exodus 1-24
  • The Septuagint of Numbers as a Harmonizing Text
  • Textual Harmonization in the Five Books of the Torah: Summary
  • The (Proto-)Masoretic Text
  • "Proto-Masoretic," "Pre-Masoretic," "Semi-Masoretic," and "Masoretic": A Study in Terminology and Textual Theory
  • The Enigma of the Masoretic Text
  • The Development of the Text of the Torah in Two Major Text Blocks
  • The Source of Source Criticism: The Relevance of Non-Masoretic Textual Witnesses
  • The Socio-Religious Setting of the (Proto-)Masoretic Text
  • Ketiv/Qere Readings in Parallel Scripture Texts
  • The Septuagint
  • The Septuagint: Summary and Update
  • The Septuagint Translation of the Torah as a Source and Resource for the Post-Pentateuchal Translators
  • The Shared Tradition of the Septuagint and the Samaritan Pentateuch
  • Moses in the Septuagint
  • The Septuagint in Codex Sinaiticus Compared with Other Sources
  • Assyria in the Septuagint
  • Transliterated Proper Nouns in the Septuagint: Some Statistics
  • The Dead Sea Scrolls
  • The Tefillin from the Judean Desert and the Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible
  • Scribal Characteristics of the Qumran Scrolls
  • Scribal Practices and Approaches Revisited
  • An Early Leviticus Scroll from En-Gedi: Preliminary Publication /
  • Emanuel Tov , Michael Segal , William Brent Seales , Clifford Seth Parker , Pnina Shor and Yosef Porath
  • Back Matter
  • Indexes.